Musk Vale bushfire memorial plans revealed

The Hepburn Council is considering building a bushfire memorial at the Sailors Falls road reserve near Daylesford.

It is to mark the 2009 Musk Vale fire, which burnt more than 2,500 hectares of land, destroyed part of the Hepburn Tourist Railway and injured two firefighters.

The council's community recovery committee has recommended the location because the bushfire started there.

Mayor Janine Booth says the design will be determined after more community consultation.

"What will actually go there will again be subject to some community consultation and depending on what we're allowed to put there, as well as what the community would like to see there, with regards to functionality and public art work and those sorts of things, so the brief will be quite broad," she said.

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